At 2 years, cocaine babies suffer cognitive development effects
...stational age, birthweight, head circumference and length than non-exposed infants. There were more preterm, low birthweight and small for gestational age infants in the exposed group. Researchers also found that the rate of mental retardation in cocaine-exposed children at age 2 (13.7 percent v. 7.1 percen...Highest sustained virologic response in treatment of Hepatitis C ever reported in prospective study
...ble they can prescribe it for the most appropriate length and dose of combination treatment based on a patient's genotype and achieve optimal results." Rush-Presbyterian St. Luke's Medical Center was one of 29 U.S. trial locations. The study also found a 51 percent SVR, the highest ever achieved, for pat...USAID-supported research leads to new formula of ORS that will save millions of lives
...or costly intravenous (IV) fluid treatment and the length of illness. It is responsible for saving the lives of millions of children worldwide. This inexpensive and readily available intervention reduces death and suffering from dehydration caused by diarrhea. Since WHO adopted ORS in 1978 as its primary t...Cancer drug proves effective in treating sickle cell disease
... the levels of fetal hemoglobin and increasing the length of time patients are on the drug to ensure that harmful side effects do not emerge with time. An oral form of decitabine is in development. Sickle cell disease is found primarily in populations originating in the world's malarial belt. About one in 5...New wireless imaging test identified the cause of gastrointestinal bleeding in majority of patients
...he bleed because they cannot extend throughout the length of the entire small intestine. For example, upper endoscopic procedures can only visualize about the first third of the small intestine an organ which is 15-20 feet long while colonoscopy can only see the last three or four feet. The video capsul...Some patients are candidates for combined heart bypass, lung transplant surgeries
...t of time the patient is on the table. Also, their length of stay in the hospital was similar to those transplant patients who didn't get the revascularization." This study is the largest to date, providing scientific support for combining a heart procedure with a lung transplant in this select group of pa...New drugs could markedly alter Alzheimer's, but disease will not go away
...ns altered the course of the illness, doubling the length of time patients spend in each of the five disease stages. Treatments for hypertension and reduction of coronary artery disease have helped delay the onset of congestive heart failure. In the 1950s, the average age of disease onset was 57.3 years. By...Children's psychological well-being improves after divorce, but test scores do not
... parents had declining test scores throughout the length of the study. For example, students of divorced parents showed science test scores that averaged 1.13 points lower than other students at the first time point of the study. The difference in...Hearing infants show preference for sign language over pantomime
... pantomime stories. The sequences were matched for length and grouped into trials that lasted about 40 seconds. The infants' faces were videotaped to see where their eyes were directed. Each infant saw six trials, and the ASL stories and mime sequences were randomly switched between the monitors. An ex...Scientists become filmmakers to decipher immunity
...th other cells in the thymus. They found that the length of time immature T cells remained in contact with other thymic cells increased when those thymic cells carried surface proteins that helped the T cells mature. Their study reveals the diversity of interactions that help regulate T-cell development a...Beta-blockers after heart surgery show double benefits
...rials have been strong enough to show an effect on length of hospital stay or stroke," says Eugene Crystal, ...researchers found that all three drugs reduced the length of hospital stay by about half a day. "Reduction in length of stay by a simple, inexpensive thera...Largest study of Hmong shamanism prompts new patient care guidelines
...or their health care, regardless of age, gende, or length of time in the United States. Unlike physicians, shamans do not provide physical diagnosis; they treat the spiritual manifestations of acute and chronic illness. There is no contemporary equivalent to shamans in Western medicine. Patients said they u...Breast cancer mortality may be tied to prolonged exposure to low dose radiation
...chnologists between 1926 through 1982. The average length of follow-up after the questionnaire was 12 years. After adjusting for age of menopause, age at first birth, and family history of breast cancer, the authors found that women who began working as radiologic technologists before 1940 were nearly 3 ti...Insight into how the body tells time
...of all its genes depending on a combination of day length and the circadian clock gives us an attractive model for understanding seasonal timekeeping," says co-author Russell N. Van Gelder, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences. "Defects in seasonal timekeeping are thought to...... sex, comorbidities, prior nonelective admissions, length of stay, whether a procedure was performed and whether a complication occurred in hospital. The authors speculate that the increased risk may be due to delays in providing social services or to the provision of incomplete discharge information due to...Feeding tubes may not help in severe dementia, yet use varies widely
...ther feeding tubes improve the quality or even the length of life. These should be broad discussions that include the community, state regulators and consumers." State regulators play a critical role, Teno said. "Nursing homes are often afraid of being cited by regulators if some of their patients are losin...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for July (first issue)
...s with TB, when combined with restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis of specimens to determine disease clustering, can enhance TB control by showing epidemiologic links between these persons, according to a study of 159 subjects in Tarrant County Texas. Of these patients, 76 (48 percent)w...Women cured of childhood leukaemia should be advised to have children while they are young
...al cycles and normal hormonal levels, although the length of the cycle in the ALL group was significantly shorter than in the control group (28.9 versus 30.7 days). The researchers used transvaginal ultrasounds, taken at the beginning of the menstrual cycle, to measure the volume of the women's ovaries and ...Can longer consultations really save time and resources?
It has been argued that increasing the length of general practice consultations will save time a...nsultation interval increased by 50%, consultation length increased by only 12%. This raises the question of what the doctors did with the extra time, say the...High-volume hospitals equal higher survival rates for bleeding strokes
...ltiple variables that might contribute to it. The length of stay was longer for patients at the higher-volume hospitals, and the costs were higher. In addition, only 4.8 percent of patients at hospitals with the fewest SAH cases each year had been referred to higher-volume centers for care and treatment,...